World Trade Centre Memorial Garden in Bettws Shopping Centre, Newport
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World Trade Centre Memorial Garden in Bettws Shopping Centre, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 29 Feb 2016
The inscription on the plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4849112 on the garden wall is THIS GARDEN IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001. The Memorial Garden is the location of the annual Memorial Service remembering the terrorist atrocities of September 11th 2001, perpetrated by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda which hijacked passenger airliners, targeting them to hit the World Trade Centre in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC. One plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in total. The annual Memorial Service also remembers the service personnel killed in later conflicts.
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